British professional soccer team Manchester United Football Club, whose home uniform color is mainly red, won more than half its home matches between 1947 and 2003. This is a higher proportion of home matches than Watford Football Club, whose home uniform color is not red, won during the same period. According to a study by Martin J. Attrill and colleagues, the color red can cause people to respond with fear and hesitation, which the researchers think helps explain Manchester United’s success. Nadav Goldschmied and colleagues reanalyzed the published data from this study, however, and found no evidence that red-uniformed teams are more likely than other teams to win, suggesting that Manchester United’s red uniforms
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negatively affected the performance of Manchester United’s opponents.
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made the Manchester United players more nervous than they would have been if their uniforms had not been red.
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did not affect the fans’ satisfaction with Manchester United’s performance.
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did not provide Manchester United with any significant advantage.